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| 4737267955 | 1st Person Point of View | Told from the narrator's perspective using I-me-my-mine in his or her speech. | 0 | |
| 4737267956 | 3rd Person Point of View/Limited | Characters are referred to as "he" and "she." The narrator is not a character in the story. | 1 | |
| 4737267957 | 3rd Person Omniscient | The narrator knows everything; all thoughts, feelings, and actions of the characters in the story. | 2 | |
| 4737267958 | 2nd Person Point of View | The narrator tells the story to another character using you, your, you're. | 3 | |
| 4737267959 | Allegory | A figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures and events. | 4 | |
| 4737267960 | Alliteration | The repetition of a beginning consonant sound in a phrase or a sentence. | 5 | |
| 4737267961 | Allusion | A reference to a well-known person, event, or place from history, music, art, or another literary work. | 6 | |
| 4737267962 | Amplification | The writer embellishes the sentence by adding more information to it in order to increase its worth and understandability. | 7 | |
| 4737267963 | Analogy | Establishes a relationship based on similarities between two concepts or ideas. | 8 | |
| 4737267964 | Anaphora | The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of two or more lines or clauses. | 9 | |
| 4737267965 | Anagram | Word play in which letters of a word or phrase are rearranged in such a way that a new word or phrase is formed usually aimed at parodying, criticizing or praising its subject. | 10 | |
| 4737267966 | Anastrophe | The order of the noun and the adjective in the sentence is exchanged to create a dramatic effect. | 11 | |
| 4737267967 | Anthropomorphism | Attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object. | 12 | |
| 4737267968 | Aside | An actor's speech, directed to the audience, that is not heard by other actors on stage. Usually a brief comment rather than a speech. | 13 | |
| 4737267969 | Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds in words near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible. | 14 | |
| 4737267970 | Aphorism | A statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner. | 15 | |
| 4737267971 | Asyndeton | Purposefully leaves out conjunctions in the sentence, while maintaining the grammatical accuracy of the phrase. | 16 | |
| 4737267972 | Bibliomancy | Prediction of the future by interpreting a bible verse or any religious text for reference. | 17 | |
| 4737267973 | Cacophony | The use of words with sharp, harsh, hissing and unmelodious sounds primarily those of consonants to achieve desired results. | 18 | |
| 4737267974 | Caesura | A dramatic pause, which has a strong impact, two separate parts in a sentence that are distinguishable from one another yet intrinsically linked to one another. | 19 | |
| 4737267975 | Chiasmus | The order of the terms in the first of two parallel clauses is reversed in the second clause. | 20 | |
| 4737267976 | Connotation | The implied meaning of a word, the associated and emotional overtones attached to a word. | 21 | |
| 4737267977 | Colloquialism | The use of informal words or phrases. | 22 | |
| 4737267978 | Circumlocution | The use of long and complex sentences in order to convey a meaning that could have been conveyed through a shorter, much simpler sentence; often leaving the reader guessing at the actual meaning. Synonym: periphrasis | 23 | |
| 4737267979 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word. | 24 | |
| 4737267980 | Consonance | Repetitive consonant sounds produced within a sentence or phrase. | 25 | |
| 4737267981 | Diacope | Repetition of a word or phrase with one or more words between the repetition. | 26 | |
| 4737267982 | Dramatic Irony | The reader or audience knows more about the circumstances or future events in a story than the characters within it. | 27 | |
| 4737267983 | Epilogue | A section or speech at the end of a book or play that serves as a comment on or a conclusion to what has happened. " | 28 | |
| 4737267984 | Epithet | Describes a place, a thing or a person in such a way that it helps in making the characteristics of a person, thing or place more prominent. | 29 | |
| 4737267985 | Euphemism | A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing. | 30 | |
| 4737267986 | Euphony | Harmonious combination of words. | 31 | |
| 4737267987 | Fable | A short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters. | 32 | |
| 4737267988 | Flashback | Interruptions inserted of past events in order to provide background or context to the current events of a narrative. | 33 | |
| 4737267989 | Faulty Parallelism | Lack of balance in grammatical forms; dissimilar or unequal weight | 34 | |
| 4737267990 | Foil | A character whose actions or thoughts are juxtaposed against those of a major character in order to highlight key attributes of the major character. | 35 | |
| 4737267991 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis. | 36 | |
| 4737267992 | Foreshadowing | An advance hint of what is to come later in the story. | 37 | |
| 4737267993 | Hypophora | A writer raises a question and then immediately provides an answer to that question. | 38 | |
| 4737267994 | Imagery | Figurative language used to create a picture that appeals to the senses or creates visual representation. | 39 | |
| 4737267995 | Irony | An outcome of events opposite to what was, or might have been, expected to happen. | 40 | |
| 4737267996 | Juxtaposition | Placing two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions side by side for the purpose of comparing and contrasting. | 41 | |
| 4737267997 | Internal Rhyme | Middle words and end words rhyme with each other. | 42 | |
| 4737267998 | Kenning | Anglo-Saxon or Old English literary convention, a compound expression used in place of a name or noun. | 43 | |
| 4737267999 | Monologue | Dramatic speech delivered by a single character in a play. | 44 | |
| 4737268000 | Metonymy | Replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is merely associated but is not necessarily physically a part of it. metonymy = merely associated | 45 | |
| 4737268001 | Litotes | An intentional use of understatement that renders an ironical effect | 46 | |
| 4737268002 | Malapropism | The mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one. | 47 | |
| 4737268003 | Motif | A recurrent image, symbol, theme, character type, subject, or narrative detail that becomes a unifying element in a work. | 48 | |
| 4737268004 | Onomatopoeia | Words whose sound suggests their meaning. | 49 | |
| 4737268005 | Oxymoron | Words that appear to contradict each other. | 50 | |
| 4737268006 | Nemesis | A rival, a person or thing that causes one to fail., often seen as undefeatable. A nemesis may be an inner or outer force. | 51 | |
| 4737268007 | Parallelism | Using the same pattern of words or similar grammatical structure to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. | 52 | |
| 4737268008 | Parable | A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson. | 53 | |
| 4737268009 | Paradox | A statement that appears to be selfcontradictory but may prove to be true. | 54 | |
| 4737268010 | Pathetic Fallacy | Attributing human emotion and action to nature, a type of personification | 55 | |
| 4737268011 | Polysyndeton | Using conjunctions or connecting words frequently in a sentence, placed very close to one another. | 56 | |
| 4737268012 | Periphrasis | The use of excessive language and surplus words to convey a meaning that could otherwise be conveyed with fewer words. Synonym: circumlocution . | 57 | |
| 4737268013 | Portmanteau | Two or more words are joined together to coin a new word. | 58 | |
| 4737268014 | Prologue | A separate introductory section of a literary or musical work. | 59 | |
| 4737268015 | Satire | Making fun of a human weakness or character flaw. Even though satire might be humorous, its purpose is to derive a reaction of contempt from the reader. | 60 | |
| 4737268016 | Pun | A play on words in which a humorous effect is produced by using a word that suggests two or more meanings. | 61 | |
| 4737268017 | Simile | A comparison between unlike things using the words "like" or "as." | 62 | |
| 4737268018 | Situational Irony | When an event contradicts the expectations of the characters or the reader. | 63 | |
| 4737268019 | Symbolism | The use of an object, person, situation, or word to represent, stand for, or suggest an idea, image, belief, or action. | 64 | |
| 4737268020 | Soliloquy | When a character speaks to himself or herself, relating thoughts and feelings, sharing thoughts with the audience | 65 | |
| 4737268021 | Spoonerism | Interchanging the first letters of some words in order to create new words. | 66 | |
| 4737268023 | Synecdoche | When the representative thing is actually a part of the larger thing it is representing; uses a part of something to refer to the whole or uses an entire thing to represent a part of it. | 67 | |
| 4737268024 | Synesthesia | A technique used to present ideas, characters or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one senses at a time. | 68 | |
| 4737268025 | Syntax | The way in which words and sentences are placed together in writing to convey a certain meaning. | 69 | |
| 4737268026 | Verbal Irony | Occurs when a speaker or narrator says one thing while meaning the opposite. | 70 |
